Lee Atchison | Cloud Strategist, Thought Leader, Industry Cloud Expert

Cloud Strategist

Lee is a recognized industry leader in cloud computing. He has of experience and committed his career to architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service oriented, SaaS applications. Lee is the Senior Director, Strategic Architecture at New Relic. Lee leads technical architecture and transformation within the Office of the CTO, … Continue Reading…
DevOps Reading List: Top 30 Best DevOps Books You Should Read In 2018

The #1 book on their list is “Architecting for Scale” book by Lee Atchison. As the article says: "The first one on our DevOps reading list is Architecting for Scale. It is an excellent book to understand real-world paradigms for scaling and managing critical applications. This book covers 5 different elements: availability, risk management, … Continue Reading…
How to Deal with Service Failures

It’s simple, really — services call other services and they take actions based on the responses from those services. Sometimes, that action is a success, sometimes it’s a failure. But whether it is a success or a failure depends on if the interaction meets certain requirements. In particular, the response must be predictable, understandable and … Continue Reading…
How Service Tiers Can Help to Avoid Microservices Disasters

Bringing down an entire application is easy. All it takes is the failure of a single service and the entire set of services that make up the application can come crashing down like a house of cards. Just one minor error from a non-critical service can be disastrous to the entire application. There are, of course, many ways to prevent dependent … Continue Reading…
Lee Atchison – Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing

Congratulations to Lee Atchison who is listed #13 on the Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing list for January 2020. The list, created by Thinkers 360, provides a holistic measure of thought leadership and authentic influence. If you are interested in seeing the entire list, head over to Thinkers … Continue Reading…